not ... garments - like the “fig leaves” wherewith Adam and Eve vainly tried to cover their shame, as contrasted with “the coats of skins” which the Lord God made to clothe them with (Isa 64:6; Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27; Phi 3:9). The artificial self-deceiving sophisms of human philosophy (1Ti 6:5; 2Ti 2:16, 2Ti 2:23).